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Old Guy - Director Interview with Simon West

Old Guy – Interview with Film Director Simon West

Simon West is the director behind action hits like Con-Air, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and The Expendables 2. In 2025, he returns with Old Guy, an action comedy about an aging hitman portrayed by Christoph Waltz.

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Room Taken – Interview with Film Writer Michael Whelan and Producer Colmán Mac Cionnaith

The drama short film from Ireland that has been shortlisted for Best Live-action Short Film for this year's Oscars.

Film Interviews

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent - Interview with Nebojsa Slijepcevic

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent – Interview with Film Writer / Director Nebojsa Slijepcevic

Nominated for Best Live-Action Short Film at the 2025 Oscars.

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In the Shadow of the Cypress – Interview with Film Co-Writers / Co-Directors Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani

The Iranian animated short film In the Shadow of the Cypress was one of the films nominated for Best Animated Short at the 2025 Oscars.

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Dovecote - Interview with Director Marco Perego

Dovecote – Interview with Film Co-writer / Director Marco Perego

Italian filmmaker Marco Perego joins his creative collaborator and wife Zoe Saldaña for Dovecote, a slow-burning prison drama shortlisted at the 2025 Oscars for Best Live-Action Short Film.

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Anuja – Interview with Film Writer / Director Adam J. Graves

Anuja is a 2024 Hindi-language short film that made it to this year's Oscar nominations for Best Live-Action...

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Drowning Dry – Interview with Film Writer / Director Laurynas Bareiša

Drowning Dry is a 2024 drama film written and directed by Lithuanian filmmaker Laurynas Bareiša. The film was Lithuania's entry in the Best International Feature race for the 2025 Oscars.

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The Girl with the Needle interview - Magnus von Horn

The Girl with the Needle – Interview with Film Director / Co-writer Magnus von Horn and Actor Vic Carmen Sonne

The Girl with the Needle is a Golden Globe-nominated period drama from Denmark set in the backdrop of the post-First World War era.

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Flow - Interview with Director Gints Zilbalodis.

Flow – Interview with Film Director / Co-writer Gints Zilbalodis

Picking up the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature, Flow emerged as one of 2024’s freshest animated movies with its moving tale of a cat surviving a catastrophic flood.

Film Interviews

Family Portrait - Interview with Film Director Lucy Kerr

Family Portrait – Interview with Film Director / Co-writer Lucy Kerr

Family Portrait is a 2023 film that follows a large family on a morning when they have planned a group picture. We sat down with Lucy Kerr on her new film Family Portrait, discussing her artistic influences, technical choices, and thematic elements of the drama feature.

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Anatomy of a Fall Trailer

The Whale [2022] Official Film Trailer

Decision to Leave [2022] Official Film Trailer

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Old Guy – Interview with Film Director Simon West

Room Taken – Interview with Film Writer Michael Whelan and Producer Colmán Mac Cionnaith

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent – Interview with Film Writer / Director Nebojsa Slijepcevic

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Old Guy

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Interview

Old Guy – Interview with Film Director Simon West

Room Taken – Interview with Film Writer Michael Whelan and Producer Colmán Mac Cionnaith

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent – Interview with Film Writer / Director Nebojsa Slijepcevic

In the Shadow of the Cypress – Interview with Film Co-Writers / Co-Directors Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani

Dovecote – Interview with Film Co-writer / Director Marco Perego

Anuja – Interview with Film Writer / Director Adam J. Graves

Drowning Dry – Interview with Film Writer / Director Laurynas Bareiša

The Girl with the Needle – Interview with Film Director / Co-writer Magnus von Horn and Actor Vic Carmen Sonne

Flow – Interview with Film Director / Co-writer Gints Zilbalodis

Family Portrait – Interview with Film Director / Co-writer Lucy Kerr

In Camera – Interview with Film Writer / Director Naqqash Khalid

Daddy’s Head – Interview with Film Writer / Director Benjamin Barfoot

Booger – Interview with Film Writer / Director Mary Dauterman

Memoir of a Snail – Interview with Film Writer / Director Adam Elliot

Last Straw – Interview with Film Director Alan Scott Neal